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(1) This Order, which supersedes the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1988, may be cited as the Land Registration (District Registries) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st February 1990.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires –
 “the Act” means the Land Registration Act 1925;
 “district registry” means a district registry of the Land Registry within the meaning of section 132 of the Act;
 “the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Order.
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(1) 
(a) There shall continue to be district registries bearing the names and at the places specified in column 1 in Part I of the Schedule.
(b) On and after the date specified in column 1 in Part II of the Schedule there shall be a new district registry bearing the name and at the place specified in that column.
(2) Each district registry shall be the proper office for the purposes of the registration of titles to land wholly or partly in its district, which shall comprise the administrative areas specified opposite its name in columns 2 and 3 in both Parts of the Schedule:Provided that –
 the county of East Sussex shall not form part of the district of the Portsmouth District Land Registry before 1st October 1990 and shall not form part of the district of the Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry on or after that date;and the provisions of the Schedule shall be construed accordingly.
We concur, Dated 27th September 1989
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
Stephen Dorrell,
Kenneth Carlisle,
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 5th October 1989
SCHEDULE
PART I

(1) (2) (3)
District Registry Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)
The Birkenhead District Land Registry at Birkenhead Cheshire 
 Merseyside 
 Staffordshire 
The Coventry District Land Registry at Coventry West Midlands 
The Croydon District Land Registry at Croydon  Bexley
  Bromley
  Croydon
  Sutton
The Durham District Land Registry at Durham Cleveland 
 Cumbria 
 Durham 
 Northumberland 
 North Yorkshire 
 Surrey 
 Tyne and Wear 
The Gloucester District Land Registry at Gloucester Berkshire 
 Gloucestershire 
 Oxfordshire 
 Warwickshire 
 Wiltshire 
The Harrow District Land Registry at Harrow on the Hill  Barnet
  Brent
  The City of London
  The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
  Camden
  City of Westminster
  Hammersmith and Fulham
  Harrow
  Islington
  Kensington and Chelsea
The Kingston upon Hull District Land Registry at Kingston upon Hull Humberside 
 Lincolnshire 
 Norfolk 
 Suffolk 
The Leicester District Land Registry at Leicester Buckinghamshire 
 Leicestershire 
The Lytham District Land Registry at Lytham St. Annes Greater Manchester 
 Lancashire 
The Nottingham District Land Registry at Nottingham Derbyshire 
 Nottinghamshire 
 South Yorkshire 
 West Yorkshire 
The Peterborough Ditrict Land Registry at Peterborough Bedfordshire 
 Cambridgeshire 
 Essex 
 Northamptonshire 
The Plymouth District Land Registry at Plymouth Avon 
 Cornwall 
 Devon 
 Isles of Scilly 
 Somerset 
The Stevenage District Land Registry at Stevenage Hertfordshire Barking and Dagenham
  Enfield
  Hackney
  Haringey
  Havering
  Newham
  Redbridge
  Tower Hamlets
  Waltham Forest
The Swansea District Land Registry at Swansea Hereford and Worcester Ealing
 All counties in Wales Hillingdon
  Hounslow
The Telford District Land Registry at Telford Shropshire Greenwich
  Kingston upon Thames
  Lambeth
  Lewisham
  Merton
  Richmond upon Thames
  Southwark
  Wandsworth
The Tunbridge Wells District Land Registry at Tunbridge Wells Kent 
 East Sussex (only before 1st October 1990) 
The Weymouth District Land Registry at Weymouth Dorset 
 Hampshire 
 Isle of Wight 
 West Sussex 
PART II

(1) (2) (3)
District Registry Counties (including the Isles of Scilly) London Boroughs (including the City and the Temples)
The Portsmouth District Land Registry at Portsmouth on and after 1st October 1990 East Sussex 